Should babies be aborted who are likely to be poor or sick?

Question

Evidently Barack Obama thinks that makes sense. When he was in Harvard he wrote in a Law Review the following, ""Expanded access to prenatal education and heath care facilities will far more likely serve the very real state interest in preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair." He has vehemently supported abortions, even to allowing babies to die who survive abortion.

Answer 1

The answer to your question is babies who are likely to be poor or sick should be prevented by birth control, not killed.

Answer 2

sounds like you are reading something you don't understand and not only that you have taken something out of context for the rest of us.  

He says expanded access to prenatal CARE and HEALTH CARE facilities, hmm, i don't see the word abortion in there anywhere. health care and prenatal care can teach the mother to better take care of her health and make better spending decisions when it comes to food and and health care access can prevent the child from undo pain and despair.  well what was the context of the rest of the paper, i don't think it was abortion, it was who providing these services to mothers who most need it can help reduce state expenditures in the long run by probably reducing spending in other areas, but we need the paper.  

Don't you want children to avoid pain and despair if that means the mom just received good prenatal care and had access to health care facilities if problems arose?    

Answer 3

From reading your quote, I don't see how you draw the conclusion that he is saying that babies who are likely to be born poor or sick should be aborted.  It sounds to me like he is saying we need to have better education and better prenatal care.  I didn't read the entire article though, so I'm not going to make any assumptions from just one sentence.

Answer 4

You are just reading what you want to read and hearing what you want to hear.

This subject is not so black and white and I think you are making a case for something that doesn't even exist.

It is obvious that you either:

1) hate Obama

or

2) are pro-life

Okay, we get it.  Now move on.

Answer 5

Currently abortion is legal in the United states and until it is no longer legal, women have the right to choose, rich, poor, young, old, healthy baby, sick baby, it's still a woman's right to choose to carry that child to full term or not.

Answer 6

uuhhmmm... sounds to me like he is talking about s*x education and better access to birth control programs to the lower class, not necessarily abortions. Nice try, though.

Answer 7

"serve the very real state interest in preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair".

That sounds like abortion, perhaps even forced sterilization, to me.

Will your soul belong to the government as well?

How you care for the sick and the poor is the measure of your humanity,

Obamas measure is ZERO. The man will treat you as if you are property. He's nothing more than a pretty boy with pretty words. Useless.

Answer 8

well everyone has as opinion - freedom of speech.

I dont think theres a right or wrong answer but my opinion is strictly every baby is a BLESSING

Answer 9

Another reason why I don't care of Obama.You do have this in the wrong category.

Answer 10

In this country we are so quick to not let anyone near our right to free speech, but we want to put out the life of anyone who is not wanted or is not perfect.

It is a sad day in the United States of America when we define life by who is wanted or is seen as good enough. How can anyone not see abortion as wrong, when there is obviously life there?

How can someone say that a child--even one alive outside its mother--is not human, just because the parents don't want it? Any unwanted baby should be protected by the government ("LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...") if the parents won't take care of them, just like what is done for older kids.

No matter how sick or deformed a baby will be, death cannot be rightly chosen for another. Let those children grow up and then decide for themselves if life is worth living. You can bet an overwhelming majority would rather live in an imperfect world, as we all do, than die because life didn't turn out the way they wanted.

This is sad. And wrong. And people who defend it know it.